Review of In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders

I somehow more or less missed the news reports of this case when it first hit the headlines more than twenty years ago. But I have a feeling that this movie reasonably (at least) recreates what happened, since this movie got the cooperation of the real FBI. And what it portrays is pretty chilling. The two criminals are real nasty pieces of work, and their various crimes are depicted in a way that I don't think any viewer will find "fun". Murder in this movie is shown to be really awful, and the climatic shootout is filled with characters in a great deal of pain and dying in front of our eyes. While the movie is almost twenty-five years old, it really hasn't dated that much, except for a few minor details like gigantic cell phones. And it's available on DVD, so it should be easy to track down a copy of this must-see movie.